Christian ethics in history and modern life,

"An elaboration of a course of lectures delivered on the Stanton foundation in the University of Cambridge."--Pref.

Library literature.

"An index to library and information science".

...Report on designated depository libraries showing conditions on April 16, 1923, under the selective plan first authorized by Public act 171, 67th Congress, with list of designated depository libraries rev. to July 1, 1923.

"Paper read before the Public documents round table of the American library association, Hot Springs, Ark., April 27, 1923."--p. 5.

Yearbook of American churches.

Vols. dated 1955 through 1961 were published in the years preceding, 1954 through 1960; no volume was published dated 1954.

[Miscellaneous publications]

[1] The American Businessman and international commercial arbitration -- [2] Simplifying U.S. customs procedure -- 3. Toward freer world trade -- 4. The specter of 1953 -- 5. Increasing international trade with world-wide protection of trade-marks -- 6. The ICC at work -- 7. Maintaining a high level of employment in a democratic world -- 8. 'Red tape' in trade and travel -- 9. The east-west trade controversy -- 10. The expansion of trade -- 11. The president's program for a foreign economic policy -- 12. Round table on European inland transport -- 13. G.A.T.T. an analysis and appraisal of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade -- 14. The organization for trade cooperation and the new G.A.T.T

Local indexes in American libraries; a union list of unpublished indexes;

Mode of access: Internet.

Harper's young people.

Mode of access: Internet.

The story of Sir Launcelot and his companions,

Follows Sir Launcelot of the Round Table as he rescues Queen Guinevere, fights in the tournament at Astolat and pursues other adventures.

Interest groups on four continents.

"The ... result of a round-table conference held by the International Political Science Association at the University of Pittsburgh, September 9-13, 1957."

Management research in India:current state and future directions

Concerned over the lack of high quality, context specific management research in India, and the predilection of Indian researchers to follow Western models of research and publication blindly, the authors take stock of Indian management research in this round table discussion and debate some of the relevant issues. Urging Indian researchers to strive for the levels of rigour of the Western models, they make a case for confident indigenous scholarship to suit the development and educational requirements of the country, following context-relevant constructs and methodologies in research and developing curricula, materials and modes of dissemination independently. These ideas were also explored at the second Indian Academy of Management Conference held at IIM Bangalore in December 2011. © 2012 Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.

From Mare Nostrum to Insula Nostra : British Colonial Cyprus and the Italian Imperial Threat

Peer reviewed

Television history: archives, excavation and the future. A discussion

This article considers possible futures for television (TV) studies, imagining how the discipline might evolve more productively over the next 10 years and what practical steps are necessary to move towards those outcomes. Conducted as a round-table discussion between leading figures in television history and archives, the debate focuses on the critical issue of archives, considering and responding to questions of access/inaccessibility, texts/contexts, commercial/symbolic value, impact and relevance. These questions reflect recurrent concerns when selecting case studies for historical TV research projects: how difficult is it to access the material (when it survives)? What obstacles might be faced (copyright, costs, etc.) when disseminating findings to a wider public? The relationship between the roles of ‘researcher’ and ‘archivist’ appears closer and more mutually supportive in TV studies than in other academic disciplines, with many people in practice straddling the traditional divide between the two roles, combining specialisms that serve to further scholarship and learning as well as the preservation of, and broad public engagements with, collections. The Research Excellence Framework’s imperative for academic researchers to achieve ‘impact’ in broader society encourages active and creative collaboration with those based in public organizations, such as the British Film Institute (BFI), who have a remit to reach a wider public. The discussion identifies various problems and successes experienced in collaboration between the academic, public and commercial sectors in the course of recent and ongoing research projects in TV studies.

Correlation between anxiety and academic self-concept in interpreter trainees

This paper focuses on two basic issues: the anxiety-generating nature of the interpreting task and the relevance of interpreter trainees’ academic self-concept. The first has already been acknowledged, although not extensively researched, in several papers, and the second has only been mentioned briefly in interpreting literature. This study seeks to examine the relationship between the anxiety and academic self-concept constructs among interpreter trainees. An adapted version of the Foreign Language Anxiety Scale (Horwitz et al., 1986), the Academic Autoconcept Scale (Schmidt, Messoulam & Molina, 2008) and a background information questionnaire were used to collect data. Students’ t-Test analysis results indicated that female students reported experiencing significantly higher levels of anxiety than male students. No significant gender difference in self-concept levels was found. Correlation analysis results suggested, on the one hand, that younger would-be interpreters suffered from higher anxiety levels and students with higher marks tended to have lower anxiety levels; and, on the other hand, that younger students had lower self-concept levels and higher-ability students held higher self-concept levels. In addition, the results revealed that students with higher anxiety levels tended to have lower self-concept levels. Based on these findings, recommendations for interpreting pedagogy are discussed.

Robust indoor speaker recognition in a network of audio and video sensors

Situational awareness is achieved naturally by the human senses of sight and hearing in combination. Automatic scene understanding aims at replicating this human ability using microphones and cameras in cooperation. In this paper, audio and video signals are fused and integrated at different levels of semantic abstractions. We detect and track a speaker who is relatively unconstrained, i.e., free to move indoors within an area larger than the comparable reported work, which is usually limited to round table meetings. The system is relatively simple: consisting of just 4 microphone pairs and a single camera. Results show that the overall multimodal tracker is more reliable than single modality systems, tolerating large occlusions and cross-talk. System evaluation is performed on both single and multi-modality tracking. The performance improvement given by the audio–video integration and fusion is quantified in terms of tracking precision and accuracy as well as speaker diarisation error rate and precision–recall (recognition). Improvements vs. the closest works are evaluated: 56% sound source localisation computational cost over an audio only system, 8% speaker diarisation error rate over an audio only speaker recognition unit and 36% on the precision–recall metric over an audio–video dominant speaker recognition method.

Mesa Redonda ¿Es Necesario un Nuevo Nombre para el Bibliotecario?

Esta mesa redonda intenta estimular la discusión sobre un tema muy álgido en la profesión. Es así que lo que haré será traducir, resumir y comentar un documento de la Universidad de Berkeley EE.UU.